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SW: What category would you put your style of music?
"Category huh? Man, I don’t know. We just try to rock
every time we get together. We’re punk kids that play rock…some
people mention that evil “e” word to describe us, but I think
that description is too easy and doesn’t mean a whole lot.
I mean, if you’re going to say that some bands play emotion-core
music, you’ve gotta say that Jimi Hendrix played emotion-core.
Robert Johnson, The Clash, The Headcoats, Bjork: all those
fools play emotion-core. So if someone was to throw that term
around to describe us, let’s not just limit it to skinny indie-rockers
suffering from unrequited love…let’s go ahead and include
all the sincere and emotional artists from every neck of the
musical woods."
SW:
Do you think its hard to make it in the music industry, if
so what part of it is the hardest?
"Having to use the bathroom at dirty truck-stops while
we’re driving from town to town. My personal message to all
Americans: remember that someone has to use the toilet after
you devastate it. Let’s keep America’s toilets beautiful.”
SW:
I have noticed lately a lot of acts coming from Texas, is
there something in the water down there?
“Well, there is often fecal matter in the water…you know,
cows living upstream of the springs and rivers. But I don’t
think that accounts for the high quality bands. When you play
in a band from Austin, you know that there is a long history
of killer bands that you have to honor. Scratch Acid, The
Butthole Surfers, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Big Boys…not
to mention the new school bands like Trail of Dead, The Impossibles,
Spoon, Sixteen Deluxe: if your going to rock in Texas, you’ve
got to bring the real, super-rock, good-luck stuff with you.”
SW:
When I listen to your guys CD/EP I notice some influences,
such as, Foo Fighters, some mild punk and maybe a touch of
pop music, if I’m totally off what are your influences?
“Thin Lizzy, Kraftwerk, Bill Hicks: we bastardize the stuff
we love so much that we would probably never sound like what
we listen to.”
SW:
When does the full album release and what will the single
be and will there be a video for it?
“Our full length, 50 Reasons to Explode, comes out mid-March.
I can’t picture us having a conventional, commercial-radio
single at this time. I’m sure some college radio stations
will just play whatever songs they enjoy. We would love to
have Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips shoot a video for us.
He doesn’t know this yet…but he is one of our heroes so it
would be rad to work on something like that with him.”
SW:
Is there any plan for a tour to back up the records release?
“We literally plan to tour until our bones are too brittle
to hold instruments. There are a lot of towns in the world…cities,
hamlets, villages. So I think we’ll just try to play everywhere,
like some old-school traveling circus.”
SW:
In three words, how would you describe the band?
“Bloody-Fucking-Metal!…kidding, just kidding. I’m a long-winded
fiction writer, so I’m not good at short descriptions.”
SW:
If you won the lotto what would be the first thing you each
would buy?
“Can you buy world peace? I’m sure that sounds cheesy. I’d
just buy everyone in the world a bunch of hash joints and
then I’d have a international smoke-out/peace-pipe day and
have everyone of every social class and race smoke-out together.
Israelis and Palestinians…KKK members and Black Panthers…Jedi
knights and Sith Lords…everybody.”
SW:
If you guys could be a superhero, what would you be?
“The Brown Hornet, Aquaman…no, no, I always loved that little
monkey, Gleek that hung out with the Wonder Twins…I’d like
to be Gleek for a day.”
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